Have you heard about the French Deep Time project? It is really interesting. A group of 15 volunteers have just re-emerged after spending 40 days in a cave to study links between the brain and time. https://deeptime.fr/en/
For me in my 6Os, getting older is not about running out of time but feeling that time “moves” at a different, much faster, speed. I was wondering why and came up with this analogy: when you have a narrow range of data to plot on a graph, the axis scales can be set so that each increment is relatively small. However, when you have more data over a wider range, the scale has to be adjusted accordingly and each increment is now much greater. It allows to keep a sense of the overall trend but at the cost of details. I think our brain has similar limitations in terms of memory storage. Over a longer period of time, it has to adjust its scale, leaving out “details” , and, by doing so, it gives us a feeling of time moving faster.
Have you heard about the French Deep Time project? It is really interesting. A group of 15 volunteers have just re-emerged after spending 40 days in a cave to study links between the brain and time. https://deeptime.fr/en/
Wow - I didn't know about this!
For me in my 6Os, getting older is not about running out of time but feeling that time “moves” at a different, much faster, speed. I was wondering why and came up with this analogy: when you have a narrow range of data to plot on a graph, the axis scales can be set so that each increment is relatively small. However, when you have more data over a wider range, the scale has to be adjusted accordingly and each increment is now much greater. It allows to keep a sense of the overall trend but at the cost of details. I think our brain has similar limitations in terms of memory storage. Over a longer period of time, it has to adjust its scale, leaving out “details” , and, by doing so, it gives us a feeling of time moving faster.